Peter Buck Didn't have anything to say, which is good because both Eddie Vedder and Michael Stipe (both lead singers, by the way) said plenty. Must be nice to have to worry about the music swelling behind you after 45 seconds.

Jay Z, the master of Bling inducts Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five in a very expensive suit and Sean Carter sneakers which are also very expensive.If you were combine every cent each member of the Furious Five and Flash have made since 1979, I don't think it wold add up to what Jay-Z made last year .

By the way, over on FX's new show The Riches, Devo's Whip It is being used to liven up a stiff High School reunion, so the thieving protagonist family (Eddie Izzard/Minnie Driver and some kids) can rob the rubes.

Hey, someone who used to work for/with Scott Weiland during the Stone Temple Pilots days described their experience as a four-year emotional rollercoaster ride from which it took her many years to recover. He used to do a lot of drugs.

I'm dating myself by admitting this but I first discovered Patti Smith through her appearance on Saturday Night Live that they just showed a bit of in the montage and Gilda Radner's sloppy, always stoned to inertia Candy Slice character.Funny stuff.

Well, a little bit of the drama has been sucked from the Rock Hall induction Ceremony Monday night.We've been wondering exactly which members of Van Halen would appear to be enshrined and as of today we know one who definitely won't be onstage, namely, the man himself EDDIE VAN HALEN who announced that he's checked into rehab and will not be at the big party.No word yet on the previously announced and previously postponed Summer tour. But you gotta wonder how delusional or just messed up Ed must have been to go from thinking he could handle a a 40 date tour to deciding that he couldn't keep his stuff together until Tuesday morning.